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We found 2147 matches on Event Comments, 688 matches on Performance Comments, 599 matches on Performance Title, 176 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@141, p. 2. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 347

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The date for this performance is based upon Lump's remark in Act I: "Upon the one and twentieth of March..." Since the dedication bears a date of 16 Feb. 1678@9, the assumption is that the play was first acted on 21 March 1677@8. References in the Prologue also fit the public events of March 1678. Dedication, Edition of 1679: This Play...met not with that Success from the generality of the Audience, which I hop'd for, and you thought, and still think, it deserved

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Mainpiece Title: A True Widow

Performance Comment: Edition of 1679: Prologue by Mr Dryden-; Epilogue by the Author-.
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Role: Epilogue by the Author Actor: .
Event Comment: The Duke's Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: The Wanton Wife. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. For difficulties in dating this performance, see 11 Feb. 1679@80

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@145, p. 120: at ye Wanton Wife with ye Q. & a box for ye Maides of honor. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 349

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: The United Company, Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to visit Ld Sussex, and Mr Campion, neither of them at home, I went into the Play (the Wanton Wife) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: Betterton's Company. See A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records, III, 357

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Entertainment: As17040417

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: Mlle delaVal, Mrs Elford, l'Abbe's Brother, l'Abbe's Scholar

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Dance: Mrs Elford

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Dance: l'Abbe, deBarques, Mrs Elford, Mlle Noisy

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford; with a Comical Dance-Firbank, Mrs Bignal

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Song: A new Comical Dialogue between-Dogget, Cooke; humorous songs-Mrs Willis, Pack

Dance: deBarques, Mrs Elford, others; comical dances-Fairbank, Mrs Bignal, Layfield

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Wife; The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (comic part only)

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (comic part only)

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea (Comic Part)

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Oldfield. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: [Benefit Bullock. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Queenborough

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality

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Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter, who is on her Recovery from a severe Feaver. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow; Or, The Wanton Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow